ABOUT US

EVERY™ is a leading VC-backed food tech ingredient company and market leader using precision fermentation to create animal proteins without the animal for the global food and beverage industry. EVERY™ is a team of passionate change-makers who are reimagining the factory farm model with a kinder, more sustainable alternative. Leveraging precision fermentation to produce hyper-functional and one-to-one replacement proteins from microorganisms, EVERY™ is on a mission to decouple the world’s proteins from the animals that make them. We are a passionate, determined (and fun!) team with a vital objective, and we’re on the lookout for like-minded people to join our mission. For more information, visit www.every.com

WHAT YOU WILL ACCOMPLISH:

• Perform microbial fermentations and practice aseptic techniques for developing protein products.
• Operation of automated bench-top reactors and/or small-scale bioreactors.
• Maintains lab equipment and related records and is responsible for vendor and inventory management.
• Run analytical instruments for quantification such as moisture analysis, dry cell weight, execute wet chemistry assays for metabolite concentrations, etc.
• Collect and process samples for products of interest.
• Design, execute, and analyze experiments with a focus on scalability, enabling data-driven interpretation and the development of follow-up studies for process optimization and scale-up. Use of statistical Analysis software(I.E. JMP, Python notebooks) is preferred.
• Run scale-down and scale-up experiments to bench and pilot scale and assist troubleshooting the CMO operations.
• Identify and report opportunities for improvement and assist to implement as needed.
• Proactively communicate information through appropriate verbal and written means and actively participate in meetings.
• Understand and follow department and corporate guidelines, compliance and safety rules and procedures related to duties.
• Perform other reasonably related duties not expressly written in this job description as may be assigned from time to time.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve safety and operational efficiency, ensuring alignment with relevant SDSs and SOPs

The Upstream Engineer I will be an integral member of our upstream process development team. We are a start-up environment and the right person in this position can expand beyond this opportunity as you continue to grow within the organization. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to join a growing team environment, solve unique problems, leverage their existing knowledge in upstream operations and develop new skills.